Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Paterson, New Jersey. He formed a bridge between the Beat movement of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s, befriending, among others, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Gregory Corso, Bob Kaufman, Herbert Huncke, Rod McKuen, and Bob Dylan.

List of works

• Howl and Other Poems (1956)
• Kaddish and Other Poems (1961)
• Reality Sandwiches (1963)
• The Yage Letters (1963) - with William S. Burroughs
• Planet News (1968)
• The Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems 1948-1951 (1972)
• The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1973)
• Iron Horse (1972)
• Mind Breaths (1978)
• Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977-1980 (1982)
• Collected Poems: 1947-1980 (1984)
• White Shroud Poems: 1980-1985 (1986)
• Cosmopolitan Greetings Poems: 1986-1993 (1994)
• Howl Annotated (1995)
• Iluminated Poems (1996)
• Selected Poems: 1947-1995 (1996)
• Death and Fame: Poems 1993-1997 (1999)